Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-05-19


WHEN Henry. George lived in California
ewas an inspector OF gas meters
ANOmaha grocer gives away an original
poem with every cake of soap he sells.
IN New York a policeman clubbed "A
young man FOR performing on am accor.
e"' 'ftN tttF E
| LONDON has thirty seven theaters t,vcn.
y-seven music halls and fifty EIGHT con.
1 cert rooms. e---r
| AN unknown quantity may be described
as what YOU get when you buy a quart box
OF Strawberries
| QUEEN VICToRIA's jubilee has been cele-
DRAFTED with great pomp in Teheran, the
| capital of Persia
AHE Russian duty on iron and steel. and
| on articles manufactured from iron and
steel, has been raised.
| AND now comes the report that Russia
anu Austria are plotting against Turkeys
| European possessions
| iHE old home of Aaron Burr is among
| inc property just purchased by "A real
| estate syndicate in New York.
| fifty THOUSAND copies of Mrs. .Clevo
lands photograph have already been sold.
| Inc demand is about eo0 a day.
i JAY GouLD's purchases OF Arkansas
lands, cover fully ten thousand acres, To-
Gated in three different counties.
| lHE Philadelphia Press says the college
| curriculum now consists OF baseball
guide and Hanlan's rules on rowing
| GENERAL BUcKSKR's admirers in Ken
| tncky are going 20 make "Bolivar. Betty
and the Baby" their campaign slogan.
The requests left Philadelphia bv
stephen Girard are now estimated 10 rep
resent money value of over sl0.Op0.OO0.
| TnE richest young man in Philadelphia
society Is August l.. Jessup He il only
twenty-four, and has an income of $1,000 "A
| year
IN his ninety years Kaiser Wilhelm has
survived no fewer than scventy-two reign.
| ing sovoreigns who were his contempor-
| aries.
TnE New York Senate has passed bill
prohibiting the use of coal stoves in cars.
Ihls lsa good time to put such alaw in
force
GovERSoR AMEs, of Massachusetts, lives
IN magnificent style. II costs him fully
s1O,OOO year TO keep up his Boston estab-
lishment.
The University of Pennsylvania has de
cided that from the opening of next session
no cigarette smoking by the students win
be allowed.
| = N-AfiN'hNiA NNhth has 0ttlOgu tndt
when man is taken in at hotel no extra
charge can be made for serving his meals
ia his room.
IHE longest continuous railway run now
made is said to be that Of the new Sarato-
ga limited, from New York TO Troy u4s
miies) without stop.
Tng Interstate Commerce Commission
has taken 200 pages OF testimony relative
to the operation of the long and short haul
clause in the South.
"KATIoLANf Kaptivates Kalifornia.
| Kome, Kweenly Kanaka' is the rapt way
in which the Boston Transcript addresses
the Hawaiian Queen.
ONE Of the Albany On. W storekeepers
Is young girl fifteen years old She
manages the store without assistance, and
! pursues growing business
THE Paris exhibition Of 1859 will be post
poned till $780, and will probably be aban-
doned eventually on account Of lack OF
cooperation by other countries
MIR. kILBR1DK, Irish tenant, in this coun-
try with Editor William O'Brien, is worth
$4,000 and lives in palace which would
rent in any city for $4,000 year
DULUTH has among her citizens Spring,
Winter, Summer, Breeze, Rainey Dewey,
Frost and Snow, but claims that Mr.. Cy
Clone has never visited the city yet
THE gifts Of the late VIM. De Pauv. IN
diana glass manufactures, 10 the Green
castle Ind.) University, which bears his
name, amount 20 more than sl,OOOOOO
81. PAUL has land syndicate which
gives land free to new manufactures To-
eating there, and they employ a salaried
4 agent 70 travel and drum up business
The probability that Sunday balLplay-
ing In Illinois will be- stopped by action OF
the Legislature has thrown a dampcr on
the spirits Of the amateur clubs iu tho
State.
Is the list Of letters advertised as re-
maiHing unclaimed in the Perth Amboy
post0fice is one addressed 20 .Raly0mI-
haly Tolopsiz Alcmakovuz Malyssgd Dol
choruk."
a WOMAN Mrs. Louise Daniels. has been
licensed az pilot Of a Lake Champlain
steamer Her examination, conducted By
q. x. Inspectors, rs said 90 have been most
satisfactory.
or the six million women in Brazil. only
half million can read or write. And In
the remote districts, IL man has occasion
70 leave home, be locks up his house and
puts his wife IN convent until be re-
turns
A coNrHAcrOn engaged on the grading az
/ langhead's coke works, az Fairchance,
Pa, on the Southwest railroad, is the
owner Of horse which possesses the re-
markablc growth Of "a flowing moustache
on It's upper lip.
JAY GouLD has taken 90 eating snaiis.
He got his strange appetite while Dol New
Mexico recently. They are roasted in tho
shell after the manner Of CLANS, and are
said 10 make palatabie dish.
In is denied in Washington that Score
tary Lamar's declination 70 attend the din.
nor given by the President 90 Queen kap
iolaui was on account OF the latter's color
The Secretary, it is said. was iu.
pamApELrHA has double the houses %
New York. with less population New
York is distinguished for che extremes OF
millionaircs aud tramps Philadelphia -